Excerpt from Hirondelle In an embrasure of the long window, which was open, sat the Lady Sheila and the mellow autumn sunlight bathed her dark beauty in a wash of gold. Her black fringed eyes were cast down in brooding contemplation of a scene of bustling activity on the shingled beach two hundred yards below. Here the skeleton of a ship was set up in the stocks, frames already placed to project unevenly above the sheer-strake which had been pro visionally laid in place, and there came up in staccato musical diapason like ...
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Excerpt from Hirondelle In an embrasure of the long window, which was open, sat the Lady Sheila and the mellow autumn sunlight bathed her dark beauty in a wash of gold. Her black fringed eyes were cast down in brooding contemplation of a scene of bustling activity on the shingled beach two hundred yards below. Here the skeleton of a ship was set up in the stocks, frames already placed to project unevenly above the sheer-strake which had been pro visionally laid in place, and there came up in staccato musical diapason like a xylophone, the mellow clatter of hammers, and the whine of saws and the biting cut of adzes, and now and then a snatch of song from some one of the more light-hearted builders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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